ZCom Finances
2009/10...Projections Total: $375,000 | We have a staff of five. Each employee earns the same take home monthly salary of $2800. But staff costs for an operation like ZCom go well beyond that because of diverse taxes, health insurance, and upkeep costs associated with staff, accounting, materials, etc. as well as electricity, heat, etc. Salary with all taxes and health insurance plus various bank charges and accounting are included here. Also rent and utilities and diverse other upkeep related costs are included. In this box we also include computer maintanence and purchase and additional office supply costs. The total "basic expenses," very rough and rounded off, are $375,000. |
2009/10...Projections Total: $260,000 | Another set of costs correlates largely to product output. There is paying creators (writers and artists), costs of printing and video manufacturing, costs of delivery and all kinds of mail and promotion. It also includes ZMI deficits and ancillary political trips and events we relate to. Finally, there are costs of the online operations including bandwidth, servers, and programming as well as online fees for materials, etc. A rough total figure is: $260,000 |
2009...Projections | Sales revenues from Z subscriptions, Videos and other sales. A rough total figure is: $190,000 |
2009...Projections | Sustainer revenues are from the online sustainer program. They are always a guess as they grow and decline due to people's choices and credit card situations... as well as continuing gains from the upgrade... Our current best guess for the next year is $400,000 |
Desires Current proj. Debit: $45,000 Need to grow donations... | So, current projections for 2009/10 are Total Costs: $635,000 Total Revenues:$590,000 Projected deficit as of now: $45,000 Desires/Plans: Initiate ZSchool on a large scale, ZBooks, much enlarged use of online video and audio, improved social networking features, improvements in print ZMag and online ZMag, staff expansion... Should additional Sustainer donation gains over the course of the year, beyond what is projected above, be as high we hope, these and other major new innovations will be added... |